Lifelong Learning: Beginner Creative Writing Skills

Our Lifelong Learning classes offer continuing education courses on a variety of topics taught by experts in their fields provided to the public at no charge. Please register by visiting the events calendar at www.petoskeylibrary.org or by calling 231.758.3100

Randy Evans will introduce participants to various creative writing forms in fiction and poetry on Thursday, August 1, Thursday, August 8, and Thursday, August 15 from 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. in the lower level classroom. Reading and writing assignments will add to classroom discussions. There will also be opportunity for short in-class writing exercises, and reading out loud in a supportive, small-group setting. Beginner skills include how to build great sentences, when to end a line of poetry, how to turn a story into a plot, use of dialogue, and point of view.